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THE CAPITOL. 

Corner-stone laid by George Washington, September 18, 1793. Open to visitors 
9-4.30. Kxcept Sunday. 



WASHINGTON 

The Capital of the Nation 

Descriptive of the most important features of 
America's mosT: beautiful and interesting city. 



Published by the 

JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION 

Appointed in 1906 by the 

WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE 

the JOBBERS' AND SHIPPERS* ASSOCIATION 

and the BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Compiled by GEORGE H. GALL 
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WASHINGTON 

The Capital of the Nation 

THIS PUBLICATION is issued for the 
purpose of furnishing visitors who register 
at the Washington reception room at the 
Jamestown Exposition with a comprehensive guide 
of the National Capital, and also a souvenir of 
their visit to the Washington Exhibit in the 
Manufacturers' and Liberal Arts Building. :: :: 

^ The Committee extends a cordial invitation 
to Jamestown visitors to visit Washington, and 
to make themselves known to members of the 
Committee and other Washington merchants. 

C| The following pages briefly illustrate the varied 
attractions of America's mosl beautiful Capital City. 



DESCRIPTIVE 

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Great Government Departments, Educational Insti- 
tutions, Financial Institutions, Beauties as a City, 
Historic Associations, Municipal and Commercial 
Organizations, Manufactures, Wholesale Trade, 
Retail Establishments. :: :: :: :: 

^ List of Contributors: Hon. Henry L. West, 
Commissioner of the District of Columbia ; Milton 

E. Ailes, Vice-President Riggs National Bank, 
formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ; 
Charles W. Semmes, Chairman Wholesale Trade 
Committee of the Chamber of Commerce ; 
D. J. Kaufman, Chairman Retail Trade Committee 
of the Chamber of Commerce ; Robert N. Harper, 
President Chamber of Commerce; Allen D. 
Albert, Editor The Washington Times ; Charles 

F. Wallraff, Convention Committee of the Chamber 
of Commerce ; Dr. Mitchell Carroll, George Wash- 
ington University; Arthur C. Moses, Chairman 
Manufactures Committee, Chamber of Commerce. 



MEMBERS 

of the 

JOINT COMMITTEE 

on the 

JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION 



From the Washington Board of Trade 

8 THOMAS W. SMITH, Chairman 

3 ROBERT N. HARPER, Treasurer 

10 W. T. GALLIHER 

13 GEORGE H. HARRIES 

11 D. A. GREENLESS 

From the Jobbers' and Shippers' Association 

6 CHARLES J. BELL, Vice Chairman 

1 MONROE LUCHS, Secretary 

2 ARTHUR C. MOSES 

9 T C. DULIN 

5 J. H. SMALL, JR. 

From the Business Men's Association 

7 JAMES F. OYSTER, Vice Chairman 

12 J. C. ERGOOD 

4 D. J. KAUFMAN 

14 D. J. CALLAHAN 

15 R. P. ANDREWS 



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Jamestown "^^^fe\ E XPOSITlON 




WASHINGTON AT JAMESTOWN 

THE CAPITAL'S PART IN THE EXPOSITION 



Arthur C. Moses 

Member of Joint Committee of Fifteen 

THE HISTOEY of the creditable exhibit of Washington's business men at 
Jamestown, dates back to the fall of 1906. At that time the desirability of 
having a commercial exhibit at the Exposition became so apparent that five 
members each of the Washington Board of Trade, the Jobbers' and Shippers' Asso- 
ciation, and the Business Men's Association were named to form a Joint Committee 
for the purpose of arranging for representation at the Ter-Centennial. 




MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING IN WHICH IS 
WASHINGTON EXHIBIT 

The committee elected Thos. W. Smith, chairman; Mnnroe Luchs, secretary, and 
Bobert N. Harper, treasurer. An effort was made by the committee to get Con- 
gress to appropriate $25,000 for a District of Columbia building at the fair, but 
although this project was strongly urged by the Commissioners, Congress failed to 
make the allowance. 



In spite of this discouragement, the committee engaged space in the Manufac- 
tures and Liberal Arts building and proceeded to dispose of it to local exhibitors. 
The following firms took space and sent their exhibits: Thos. W. Smith, lumber; 
F. G. Smith Piano Co. ; W. B. Moses & Sons, furniture and floor coverings ; The 
Scientific American, publishers; National Electrical Supply Co.; American Lock-Tile 
Co. ; E, P. Andrews Paper Co. ; Geo. P. Killian, paper box manufacturer, and the 
Maurice Joyce Engraving Co. 

Ample space was also allowed for a" Craftsman "reception room for visitors to the 
Washington section. This was handsomely furnished by W. B. Moses & Son, without 
cost to the other exhibitors. The expense of maintenance was borne by the business 
men whose names appear as advertisers in this publication. 

The exhibit stands as a demonstration of the progressive spirit of Washington 




RECEPTION ROOM WASHINGTON EXHIBIT 



business men. Since the creation of the Joint Committee, two of the original bus- 
iness bodies, the Jobbers ' and Shippers ' and the Business Men 's Associations, have 
combined and now form a body known as the Washington Chamber of Commerce. 

District of Columbia Day was celebrated at the Exposition on June 11th. The 
District Commissioners, Presidents Wilson and Harper, of the Board of Trade and 
Chamber of Commerce, and other distinguished Washingtonians, with the officials of 
the Exposition Company, held a public reception in the Government building, and 
special exercises filled the day. The Washington Chamber of Commerce chartered the 
steamer Xeirport News, and attended the celebration in a body. 



WASHINGTON— THE CAPITAL OF 
THE NATION 



BY 



Hon. Henry Litchfield West 

Commissioner of the District of Columbia 




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ESIGNED with wonderful foresight and developed 
in accordance with the original plan, the National 
Capital is to-day the most beautiful city of its 
size in the United States, and bids fair, in course of time, 
to rival the capitals of the old world. Its future progress 
and improvement should be a matter of patriotic pride to 
every American citizen. 

Eich in historic associations, the National Capital offers 
unusual attractions to the visitor. Under a massive white- 
domed building, the laws of the nation have been enacted 
for generations, while in the same impressive edifice the 
Supreme Court of the United States has construed the Con- 
stitution and the statutes. The Congressional Library stands 
as a monument to the intelligence and artistic spirit of the 
people; the Washington Monument typifies in its simple 
and stately sublimity the lofty character of the great soldier 
whose name it bears; the White House is endeared to every heart as the home of 
every President for a hundred years; and majestic edifices everywhere manifest the 
glory and the dignity of the republic. Just beyond the horizon is the tomb of Wash- 
ington, before which every American stands with uncovered head. 

Not alone in material things, but in the efforts which are being made to alleviate 
suffering and improve the condition of the distressed is the National Capital pro- 
gressing. The people are imbued with an earnest desire to secure ideal results. They 
create a healthy public sentiment which condemns wrong and stimulates earnest 
endeavor toward the accomplishment of good results. Under this beneficient influence 
the National Capital advances; but its onward march will be all the more rapid and 
certain if the people of the nation will regard it with something more than perfunc- 
tory interest. This is the lesson which should be brought home to the heart of every 
visitor. 



IN THIS SMALL BOOKLET it is impossible to touch upon all the important 
places of interest to the visitor. In addition to those specifically illustrated or 
mentioned elsewhere the following points should not be omitted by anyone who 
has the time to spend in the city: 

Agricultural Department, open 9 to 4.30, Mall, Twelfth and Fourteenth streets, S.W. 
Army Medical Museum, open 9 to 4.30, 7th and B streets, S. W. 
Botanical Garden, open 8 to 5, Pennsylvania avenue and First street. 



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Exposition Visitors coming to 

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SILVER and HOUSEFURNISHING STORE of the South 

We are Importers of 

FINE CHINA, POTTERY, BRONZES, AND OLASSWEAR 

from leading European Art centers, 
electroliers now displayed. 



New fall styles of lamps and 



HOTEL DEPARTMENT 

A special department of this house is devoted exclusively 
to the transacting of business with colleges, hotels, clubs, 
and public institutions. Continued patronage for many 
years to this trade has given us a valued ability in the 
execution of orders for 

China, Glass, Silver, and Kitchen Equipments, China 
and Glass Decorations, Monograms, Crests, etc., to order. 

ESTIMATES FURNISHED 



DULIN AND MARTIN COMPANY 

1215 F Street and 1214-18 G Street Washington, D. C. 



Corcoran Gallery, open 9.30 to 4. Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 
Saturdays, 9.30 to 4, from October 1 to May 1, and 9 to 4 from May 1 to July 1. 
Sundays. November 1 to July 1, 1.30 to 4.30. Mondays, 12 to 4. Public holidays, 
10 to 2. Admission, 25 cents Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Other days free. 
Closed every year July 1 to October 1. 

Dead-Letter Museum, open 9 to 4.30, Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street. 

Fish Commission, open 9 to 4, Sixth and B streets, S. W. 

Government Printing Office, open 10 and 2, North Capitol and H streets. 

Lincoln Museum, open all day, No. 516 Tenth street. 

Marine Barracks, open all day, Eighth and G streets, S. E. 




STATE, WAR AND NAVY BUILDING. 




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Seven- 


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Mount Vernon, open 11 to 4. Steamboat leaves Seventh and M streets, summer, 10 
A. M., 2.30 P. M. November 1 to May 30, 10 A. M., 1.45 P. M. Mt. Vernon trains 
leave Twelfth street hourly from 10 A. M. to 2 P. M., November 1 to April 30. From 
May 1 to October 31, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Eeturn hourly. 

National Museum, open 9 to 4.30, Smithsonian grounds. 

Navy Yard, open 9 to sunset, Foot of Eighth street, S. E. 

Soldiers' Home, open 9 to sunset, near Seventh street extended. 

Zoological Park, open all day, Bock Creek. Open Sunday. 



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THE CAPITALS ATTRACTIONS 

AS A CONVENTION CENTER 
AND PLACE OF RESIDENCE 



Charles F. Wallraff 

Secretary and Treasurer, Moore & Hill, Incorporated, and Member Conventions 
Committee, Chamber of Commerce 

ALL AMEEICAN CITIES have much in common, all, save one— Washington. 
It is unlike all others. It is unique. It stands pre-eminently in a class by 
itself. It is, first of all, the Capital. Typically American, it is at the same 
time the most cosmopolitan. It is not to be compared with any other city of its 
country. It is a world-city. Its class is that of the other world-capitals — Paris, 




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In the National Cemetery, at Arlington. A beautiful view of Washington 


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the porch. Open daily to visitors. Reached by trolley. 







London, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Eome, and therefore, is only to be com- 
pared with them. Other cities have local peculiarities, slightly differentiating them 
from each other ; Washington 's characteristics are national and international. 



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of retail grocers everywhere. Those desirous 
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Here is the real center of the Nation, politically, socially, intellectually. Scan 
the columns of the newspapers — the date line Washington appears more often in 
connection with matters of general import than that of any other city in the country ; 
read the magazines — no other American city figures so largely, is mentioned so often; 
note the illustrations — pictures of her buildings, her parks, her other places of interest, 
are omnipresent; read the history of our Nation — Washington left out of our 
country "s chronicles would make the story unrecognizable ; walk her streets — the 
very pavements tell of history. The broad avenues you tread have echoed with the 
footsteps of every statesman, every warrior, of your country since Madison. Her 
walls have reverberated with the words of every orator whose name is found in over 
a century of national history. Its beginning dates back to the immortal Washington, 
who chose the spot on which the city now stands, who labored to make the city a 
reality, and whose greatest memorial it now is. 

Located on one of the country 's most beautiful and historic rivers, on one of the 
choicest spots imaginable for such a city, one designed by 'nature for such a pur- 
pose, not placed here by chance or whim, with an equable climate, close to the sea- 
board and the great cities of the East, and in touch with the country at large, no 
other city holds so many inducements to the sight-seer or the resident. Clean, free 
from smoke, healthful, beautiful at all seasons, Washington as a place of residence 
is a perennial source of joy. None, indeed, there are who will not find much to in- 
terest here. To the student will appeal her libraries, chiefest among them being the 
great Library of Congress, most beautiful building of its kind in existence and one 
of the greatest treasure-houses of literature in the world. Five universities, one other 
in prospect, and almost numberless colleges and schools stamp Washington as the 
Nation's seat of learning. 

Art has its exponent in the famous Corcoran Art Gallery, with its priceless 
collection. 

Ranking among the leading museums of the world are the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, the National Museum, and the Army Medical Museum. 

Astronomical science is represented by the world-famous Naval Observatory, na- 
tural history by the National Zoological Park, one of the most comprehensive collec- 
tions of animal life extant and placed in a beautiful park, ideally adapted by nature 
and by art to the particular use to which it has been put. 

The government buildings hold much to interest. 

The lover of flowers can roam at will in the Botanical Gardens and the Con- 
servatories of the Agricultural Department and feast the eye on the countless dis- 
plays in the parks and open-spaces on every hand about the city. Here grow almost 
every known species of tree. Hundreds in the parks are plainly labeled, the Latin and 
common names being displayed. 

In brief, Washington holds every attraction to the sight-seer and to the one 
who would select a place for his home. 

It is a part of the education of every American to see it. Here is everything 
to delight the eye, to please the ear, to refresh one's knowledge of history, to stim- 
ulate one's imagination, to fire anew one's patriotism. A visit to Washington is a 
treat always to be remembered, a delight to be lived over in retrospection as long as 
life lasts, a fruitful theme to be talked over as are unrolled pages of national 
history, with Washington as the theatre of action. Even as it is the most interesting 
city to the tourist, so is it the ideal city as a residence. Its appealing charm, which 
delights the visitor, loses none of its spell on long acquaintance. The sight-seer would 
become a resident, while the resident remains always a sight-seer. 



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WASHINGTON'S RETAIL TRADE 

ADVANTAGES OFFERED TO 
THE OUT-OF-TOWN SHOPPER 



By D. J. Kaufman 

Chairman Committee on 'Retail Trade of the Washington Chamber of Commerct 

WASHINGTON is an ideal shopping center. Its establishments, in all lines of 
retail trade, are complete, attractive and quite up to date. To please the 
buyers of a city so cosmopolitan in its make up the merchants of Wash- 
ington, of necessity, cater to varied and exacting tastes. Progressiveness is the 
watch-word. A spirit of mercantile alertness is on all sides apparent. 




THE PENSION OFFICE. 

I'. G, Fourth and Fifth streets. In this building is held the Inaugural Ball given by 
the citizens of Washington in honor of each newly inaugurated President of the 
United States. 



The last two decades have witnessed a marvelous development and expansion in 
retail business. The capital city is fully abreast of its larger neighbors. There is 
nothing to be had elsewhere that cannot be had here, and upon equal terms. In the 
Jong ago some Washingtonians were wont to go out of town to do their shopping, but 



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that is only a tradition now. To-day they buy at home and, moreover, continually 
find pleasure in making known the city's surpassing advantages in the way of con- 
veniently-located and completely-equipped retail establishments. 

To the people living in the territory contiguous to the capital these shopping 
advantages must appeal more strongly all the time. Here there is much to be seen 
while on buying bent. A day cannot be more pleasurably or profitably spent than 
at the capital, with its manifold attractions for the visitor — its parks and public 
buildings, its repositories of knowledge of State, its governmental workshops, its 
halls of Congress and its great institutions of learning. A liberal education in itself 






PATENT OFFICE. 




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is to be derived from such a visit. Fortunate, indeed, therefore, are those people 
living within easy distance, who, by doing their retail trading here, are thus enabled 
to combine business with pleasure in the most profitable manner imaginable. This 
phase of the Washington retail situation, in my opinion, is certain to be emphasized 
as time goes on to the mutual profit of the merchant and the patron. There is no 
valid reason why the capital should not secure and hold much of the retail trade of 
the surrounding country; there is every valid reason why it should secure and hold 
such trade. 

This inevitably is destined to be an important part of Washington's future. 



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WASHINGTON'S MUNICIPAL AND 
COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATIONS 

THE WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE 
THE WASHINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

BY 

Allen D. Albert, Jr. 

luli lor The Washington Tinas 

TWO BUSINESS bodies serve the District of Columbia in lieu of a town council 
or State legislature. They are the Washington Board of Trade, organized 
seventeen years ago, and the Washington Chamber of Commerce, now less than 
a year old. If the Capital is to make progress commercially and its interest in the 
partnership with Congress is to find full expression, it must be with the help of these 
two organizations.- Between them, it is within the truth to say they represent every 
kind of business, every class of citizens, every reasonable movement for the public 
good. 

The Board of Trade is not accurately described in its name. Bather than the 
accustomed association of stock traders or association for the development of busi- 
ness, it is a committee of Ton citizens, devoted to changes in the laws, to representing 
the District before Congress, and to business only as a feature in the general wel- 
fare. By calculation of a former president, not more than twenty per cent of its 
members are engaged in trade; the remainder consists of leading lawyers, doctors, 
employees of the government, and representatives of other non-commercial pursuits. 

Accordingly, the record of its achievements is non-commercial. But it is not 
for that reason unimportant. "Among the conspicuous things in which it has played 
a strong and public-spirited part," wrote the Board's secretary recently, "are the 
reclamation of the Potomac flats and the deepening of the river channel; the reso : 
lution which resulted in Rock Creek Park; construction of the new Post-Office Build- 
ing, the new Municipal Building; the new Police Court Building, and many other 
buildings not purely local in their usefulness; the abolition of grade-crossings for 
steam railroads and the resultant Union Station; organization and re-organization of 
the public schools, including the establishing of the great manual-training schools 
and the construction of many needful school houses; the filtration of the city's water 
supply; establishment of the extremely successful juvenile court; increase in pay and 
the force of the police and fire departments; the substitution of modern structures 
for the old Long Bridge and the construction of a new bridge across the Eastern 
Branch; the development of a park system throughout the District of Columbia; the 
completion of the great system of sewers; the free Public Library, and a host of other 
things the catalogue of which might be wearisome." 

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demand among Washington business men for more trade. While the city grew beau- 
tiful it did not grow in commercial importance, and the spirit behind this new trade 
body was that the right kind of hustle would make it as busy as it was good to look at. 
Fine work to this same end had been done bv two older associations — the Wash- 




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Washington city post-office occupies first floor. Other parts of building open 9-2. 
Museum in first floor, East corridor. 



ington Business Men 's Association, headed by James F. Oyster, and the Washington 
Jobbers' and Shippers' Association, headed by Charles J. Bell. Apart, these organ- 
izations duplicated service; together they might prove a great force behind the Cap- 
ital's commerce. Their members were quick to see the opportunity and act upon it, 




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and last spring they came together in greater number than had ever been assembled 
for any like meeting in Washington and organized the Chamber of Commerce. 

Better shipping facilities, more wholesale and jobbing trade, co-operation for the 
widening of the Capital's commercial horizon, and the development of an industrial 
Washington — all with proper regard for municipal beauty as a business asset — are 
its objects. Its 900 members mean to achieve them by working in their shirt sleeves. 

Robert N. Harper, president of the American National Bank and a local man 
ufacturer, was elected the Chamber 's first president. Mr. Oyster and Mr. Bell were 
made the vice-presidents — the former being a leading merchant and president of the 
District Board of Education ; the latter the president of the exceptionally strong 
American Security and Trust Company, ex-president of the National Society of the 
Fine Arts, and a leader in other fields. The Secretary is William F. Gude, formerly 
secretary of the Business Men's Association, a successful florist, and a man of many 
and important business connections. Theodore Roosevelt was made the first honorary 
member, with his full knowledge and cordial consent. 

The Chamber of Commerce aims this winter to erect an office building with 
room for its assembly hall, committee rooms, cafe, and club rooms for the entertain- 
ment of visiting merchants. Simultaneously a freight committee is working for the 
full development of the new railroad terminals; a committee on wholesale trade is 
working for the establishment of new wholesale and jobbing houses; a committee on 
retail trade is working for shopping excursions to bring the residents of near-by 
counties and towns here to buy supplies as well as inspect their Capital; and other 
committees are working for modern penal and correctional methods, reasonable and 
practical laws as to usury, the reclamation of the Anacostia flats, school buildings 
enough for all the children of school age, and other similar public needs. This body 
has manifested a particular interest in the Jamestown Imposition from the day of 
its organization, watching to welcome to Washington bodies of delegates to con- 
ventions held there and making Jamestown the objective of its first excursion. 

Friendly rivalry has arisen between these two associations. Both will strive for 
the leadership in practical good for the District. Both have outlined busy programs 
for the winter. The ascendency will go to that one which does the better work. 
Whichever that shall prove to be, the Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce 
comprise together a force which should prove irresistible in behalf of more wholesale 
trade, new jobbing houses, busy factories, and healthful growth toward that beautiful 
and practical ideal which is the Nation *s hope for the American Capital. 



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WASHINGTON'S MANUFACTURES- 
POSSIBILITIES OF GROWTH 

BY 

Robert N. Harper 

President of the Washington Chamber of Commerce 

WASHINGTON CITY for a century has pursued the policy of minimizing 
industry and commerce, preferring to remain a center of legislation and 
of political and social prominence. It is now dawning upon the present 
generation that this idea is a mistake, and that civic glory may walk hand in hand 
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Those of us who advocate for Washington a better industrial condition for the 
future are, I have no doubt, just as zealous in behalf of protecting the beauty of our 
residential sections, and the comforts and pleasures of our citizens, as those who are 
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Washington is a beautiful city and it should always be our pride to keep it so. 
With all of this beauty of streets, parks, public buildings and private residences, and 
the vociferous declaration on the part of many of our good citizens, that we must not 
have industrial and commercial activity within our gates, we stand to-day among the 
large manufacturing cities of this country, and so little annoyance has it given our 
people that few of them are aware of the fact. 

If we should become a manufacturing center, as the capital of this great country 
we would be doing nothing more than is done in Paris, Vienna and Berlin, Europe's 
beautiful capital cities. 

The natural conditions surrounding Washington for industrial purposes is an 
argument of itself in favor of expansion. 

Our climate is inducive to such work throughout the year. 

Help, male and female, white or colored, skilled or unskilled, is plentiful. 

Raw material of every kind is practically at our door. 

Transportation both by rail and water is of a nature to cheaply open up the 
market of the world for our products. 

Wages are higher and the number of hours constituting a day's work about the 
same as in other cities. Our available water power is rarely equalled. 

The Manufactures Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, composed of the 
leaders in the various lines of industry in the District of Columbia, has set itself the 
task of expanding the manufacturing interests already existing and of increasing 
the number of establishments. There is much land in the District available for such 
purposes, and their own successful experiences augur well for the success of the 
efforts being made by the committee as a whole, and promises added opportunities 
for employment at home of the youths of Washington, who now go elsewhere to seek 
a livelihood. 



WASHINGTON— A WHOLESALE 
MARKET FOR THE SOUTH 

BY 

Charles W. Semmes 

Chairman Wholesale Trade Committee, Chamber of Commerce 

WASHINGTON can hardly be properly termed a jobbing center, but her 
wholesale merchants have already demonstrated to the trade of the South- 
ern States, particularly Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina, that 
this city is a good place to buy goods. The special trade train that went through 
the South last year demonstrated both to us and to the Southern merchant that our 
present considerable trade can easily be greatly increased to the satisfaction of both. 
Already we have excellent facilities for supplying the needs of the Southern 
merchant, and the plans of the Chamber of Commerce to make Washington a com- 
plete jobbing market promise to put the National Capital on a wholesale footing 
with her larger neighbors to the North. 



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Our transportation facilities are of the best, thanks to the efforts of the freight 
committee of the Jobber 's and Shipper 's Association, and we need no longer fear 
discrimination on the part of the railroads, as was formerly the case. 

Another factor that will make Washington much stronger as a distributing center 
will be the establishment of additional manufactories. An able committee of the 
Chamber of Commerce is now working on this problem. 




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Southern merchants have repeatedly expressed themselves as preferring to trade 
in Washington, provided prices are right. As an indication that they are, the great 
business done by some of our wholesale houses may be pointed out. 

The Southern merchant is welcome in Washington and that he may be made 
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Of George Washington University 

IN HIS last will and testament, George Washington gave expression to his ardent 
wish that the Capital of the Nation might become the educational center of the 
new Republic, and to promote the movement he left a legacy which he hoped 
would be instrumental in quickening the benevolence of the nation and in leading to 
the establishment of a great university on a private foundation in Washington. If 




DESIGN FOR THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING FOR THE GEORGE 
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George Washington lived to-day, he would recognize that his dream was being real- 
ized, in that Washington is already the scientific center, and is rapidly becoming the 
educational center of the United States. To appreciate the truth of this statement 
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higher learning, and to regard the city for a moment as a great composite university. 
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world, but which in proportion represents several times as many volumes per capita 
as exist for public use in any other city of the world." Greatest of all these col- 
lections of books is the Library of Congress, housed in the largest and best equipped 
library building in the world, with over eleven hundred thousand books and pamph- 
lets, and nearly half a million other articles. 




WASHINGTON MONUMENT. 

Five hundred and fifty-five (555) feet in height. Dedicated on Washington's Birth- 
day, 1885. Open to visitors 9.30-5.30. Elevator half hourly until 4.30. 



SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE 

As to museums, laboratories, and apparatus, we have only to think of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, the National Museum, the Army Medical Museum, the Corcoran 
Gallery of Art and the various departmental laboratories, to realize our wealth. Men- 




THE GEORGE WASHINGTON 
UNIVERSITY Washington, D. C. 

CHARLES WILLIS NEEDHAM, U.D., President 

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



Thomas H. Anderson 
Alexander Graham Bell, EL.D. 
David Abbot Chambers, A.M. 
John Joy Edson, 1,1,. B. 
Edward M. Gallandet, I,t,.D. 
Samuel H. Greene, D.D.. LL-D. 
Frank C. Henry, Phar. D. 



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John B. learner, L,L,.D. 
Eugene Severing 
Wayne McVeagh. I,I,.D. 
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William F. Mattingly, 1,1,. D. 
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Theodore W. Noyes, 1,1*. M. 
Henry C. Perkins 
Charles W. Richardson, M.D. 
Charles D. Walcott, UL-D. 
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Henry C. Yarrow. M.D. 



Eighty-seventh Session, 1907-8 
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tion should be made also especially of the resources of the scientific bureaus of the 
Government, as for instance, the many connected with the Department of Agricul- 
ture, the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Standards and the like. To cite merely 
one branch of science as an illustration, there are in Washington eighteen chemical 
laboratories attached to the different departments of the government, and we have 
only to add the chemical laboratories of the different universities to appreciate the 
fact that Washington is the greatest center for the study of chemistry in the country. 
And by special Act of Congress, approved April 12, 1902, these facilities for research 
in Governmental collections are now accessible, subject to regulation, to the scien- 
tific investigators of the country and to students of any institution of higher educa- 
tion incorporated under the laws of Congress or the District of Columbia. 

Furthermore, the scientific activities of the Government and of the universities 
have brought together in Washington a body of eminent scientists greater in number 
than exist in any other city of the country. The wide extent of their scientific re- 
searches is seen in the activities of the Washington Academy of Sciences and its 
fourteen affiliated learned societies. Then too, national scientific associations have 
their offices here — ■ as, for example, the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science in the Smithsonian Institution, and the Archaeological Institute of 
America in The George Washington University. 

NUMEROUS INSTITUTIONS 

With such an environment it is natural that Washington should be the center 
of the scientific and educational activities of the country. The Carnegie Institution is 
the great promoter of scientific research; the Smithsonian Institution is the 
great disseminator of knowledge; the Library of Congress is the great storehouse 
for the world's learning; and the Universities and educational institutions of the 
city are training men and women to enter into an appreciation of the intellectual 
life in all its phases. Not to speak of the efficient public school system nor of the 
seventy or more private schools that attract boys and girls to Washington from all 
parts of the country, there are in Washington eight colleges and universities, seven 
professional schools of law, three of medicine and dentistry, and three of theology. 
In these institutions there is an aggregate of four hundred and seventy-six professors 
and instructors and over thirty-five hundred students, making Washington one of the 
most important university towns in the country. To mention them by name, there 
are the three colleges, Gallaudet, Gonzaga, and St. John's; and the five universities 
Georgetown, George Washington, Howard, the Catholic University of America and the 
American University, which has already a beautiful site with two buildings erected 
and which will begin regular university work when the endowment fund has reached 
five million dollars. All of these institutions are doing excellent work and are dis- 
seminating the intellectual influences of the capital city throughout the country. Of 
these the one that bears the name of the Father of his Country has inaugurated the 
George Washington University Movement, the aim of which is to realize George 
Washington 's desire for a great university of international importance at the seat 
of Government. To this end it has already raised considerable funds for the pur- 
pose of a new site and has undertaken large plans which will lead in time to successful 
fruition. 



THE CAPITAL'S STRONG BANKS 



Milton E. Ailes 

Vice-President Biggs National Bank and formerly Assistant Secretary of the 

Treasury 
Copyright, 1906, by the Bankers' Association. 

THE PAST ten years have witnessed a development of banking power in the 
United States without parallel in our country's history. An enormous 
increase in national wealth has taken place as a result of a decade of unin- 
terupted prosperity. The figures of commercial and industrial growth are astounding 
in their magnitude, and perhaps in no other manner can this great advancement be 










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so clearly shown as by a comparison of the resources of national banks to the state- 
ments of the Comptroller of the Currency for 1895 to 1905. Between these years 
the totals have more than doubled, the September statement of the former year 
having given the resources of all national banks as $3,423,000,000, and that of May, 
1905, as $7,327,000,000. Where has there ever before been an instance of such re- 
markable growth? Looking to the causes thereof it can easily be demonstrated that 



two great factors exercised a potent influence in this increase of wealth, one of the 
final and conclusive settlement of the vexed and disturbing questions relating to our 
money standard, and the other a gathering of strength and a husbanding of mate- 
rial resources during the lean years following the panic of 1893. With the restoration 
of confidence all the pent-up energies of a country rich in men and means burst into 
activities, varied and stupendous. Small wonder it is, therefore, that the banking 
statistics of cities and sections are dazzling in the pictures they present of uni- 
versal good times — of a prosperity so far beyond our dreams of riches as to make 
this litterally a golden age. 

Washington lays little claim to pre-eminence as a manufacturing or a trade 
center, although its commerce is by no means inconsiderable; but, wanting, in a large 
sense, these factors in the production of wealth, the city might naturally be expected 
to lag somewhat behind other communities of equal population more favored in these 
respects. And yet, within the last ten years, the banking institutions of the capital 
have shared in full measure with other cities in the general growth. Within this 
brief period the resources of our national banks and trust companies, not including 
savings and private banks, have nearly trebled, having increased from $26,000,000 in 
1895 to $70,000,000 in 1905. Without the benefit of extensive manufactures or a 
great trade, Washington has about kept pace with the prosperous commercial cities 
of Louisville, Minneapolis, St. Paul, New Orleans, Detroit, and Omaha. It hardly 
seems possible that with a population largely dependent upon fixed incomes that so 
great an advancement could have been accomplished. Nevertheless, the figures speak 
for themselves, and now it is proper to accord the capital the reputation of being- 
one of the important financial centers of the country. 

CONSEEVATIVE CHAEACTEEISTICS 

Singularly enough, for some years Washiugton was slow to appreciate the 
a'lvantages of the national system. Quite a number of our leading national banks 
of this day are the successors of old and conservative houses that clung tenaciously 
to time-honored names and reputations and were loath to make a change, even after 
the undoubted benefits of Federal supervision became apparent. Of our present 
national organizations only one accepted membership in the sixties, three in the 
seventies, three in the eighties, three in the nineties, and two since 1903. 

The Eiggs National Bank, successor to Big^s & Company; the National Metro- 
politan Citizens Bank, the Commercial National Bank, and the American National 
Bank are located in what may be termed the uptown financial district, and conve- 
nient to the United States Treasury ; the Columbia National Bank, near Ninth and F 
streets; the Traders National Bank, Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; the 
Lincoln National Bank, Seventh and D streets; the Central National Bank, Seventh 
street and Pennsylvania avenue; the National Bank of Washington, Seventh street 
and Louisiana avenue, and the Second National Bank on Seventh street, between E 
and F streets, are in what may be described as the retail sections of the city; while 
the business of Capitol Hill is taken ca're of by the National Capital Bank, Pennsyl- 
vania avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Southeast; that of Georgetown, or 
West Washington, by the Farmers and Mechanics' National Bank, Thirtieth and M 
streets, and the City National Bank, 1405 G street Northwest. 

Altogether, twenty-one institutions in the District of Columbia have entered the 
national system since its inauguration in 1863. Of the nine which are not in exist- 
ence, six have surrendered their charters either through voluntary liquidation or 



consolidation, and three have failed. Of the failures, all occurred during the early 
history of national banking in the District, there having fortunately been no 
disasters of this character to record for more than a quarter of a century. 

While the past, both as to stability and progress, has been highly satisfactory, 
there is reason to believe that the future will be more so. If, on the other hand, the 
capital has not been favored by nature or the inclinations of its citizens as a place 
for the development of a great trade, on the other it may be said that it is free from 
the vicissitudes usually visited upon cities of greater commercial pretensions. A 
reasonable explanation for the mighty financial strides which Washington has made 
in recent years is to be found in an enumeration of its residential advantages and its 



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civic virtues. The beauty of the city, the stability of its government, its freedom 
from municipal disorders, its immunity from strikes, the solvency and regularity of 
its great paymaster, Uncle Sam, the delightful salubrity of its climate — all these 
serving to draw hither those whose fortunes have been won in less peaceful and more 
precarious marts — are doubtless among the leading causes of its progress. More and 
more the country at large is learning these advantages, and everywhere among the 
people of the United States there is a growing realization that Washington is worthy 
of the republic and destined to be, if indeed it is not already, the most attractive 
capital city in the world. 



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Lester A. Barr 
J. B. Cranford 
T. C. Bulin 
Stephen B. Elklns 
W. T. Galllher 
Isaac Gans 
filbert N. Harper 
James B. Henderson 
J. Whit Hernia 
6. Bowie Chipmao 
W. S. Hog a 
Thos. Seraervilta 
J. Miller Kenyon 
Blair Lee 
Irwin B. Linton 
Colin H. Livingstone 
Wm. K. Saunders 
Jas. F. Shea 
Geo. E. Walker 
Nathan Wallersteln 
J. G. Weedon 
8. U. Lynn 
Wm. Selby 
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